As CIO, Ms. Miller helped create GE’s “industrial internet” strategy, which brought large-scale data collection and analysis into the operation of heavy industrial products.

Speaking of the enumerators, Smith, the bureau’s CIO, said “people are perhaps the most important component of this multi-dimensional process.”

David S. Miller is the co-founder of Catalyst Mutual Funds, where he serves as senior portfolio manager and CIO overseeing several of Catalyst’s investment funds.